Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
并非基于年代想象的青春描写（太多同类题材依赖这种过于刻板的怀旧），而是提炼出荷尔蒙的年代故事。同时又是一部彻头彻尾的romcom. 如果说小霍夫曼的puberty刻画还比较可以预料的话，Haim 小妹的那种懵懂已过成人未满的性拉锯就非常妙了。看到评论有人说“完美结局”的，其实两人的分歧和裂痕无处不在，对待商业和政治的态度可见一斑，我觉得终究是要掰的…
开心麻花像是尝到了7年前《夏洛特烦恼》这种舞台剧小品搬上大荧幕的甜头了，这么多年仍然在复刻这一套路，然而没有一个能超越夏洛的，希望他们能好好反思了。在一个大家都在求创新求突破的环境里，水平一直处于及格线上下的导演和编剧一直在原地踏步，这无疑是非常致命的。
丑男丑女也就算了，年龄差距也不是啥新鲜事儿，这种故事有什么可以拿出来演绎的，都是各种无聊的破事儿，所谓的创业就像儿戏。比《吸大麻的孩子》差出十条街。也就61岁的西恩·潘那场戏值得一看，库珀出来几分钟演了个啥。奥斯卡越来越三流。4
终于把美国电影学会AFI 2021年度十佳电影+特别奖（观影时间顺序：《健听女孩》《犬之力》《沙丘》《倒数时刻》《国王理查德》《贝尔法斯特》《灵魂乐之夏》《不要抬头》《玉面情魔》《西区故事》《甘草披萨》）全都看了，和2020年相比，虽然没有一部像《心灵奇旅》那般直接问鼎我年度最爱的作品，但整体的观感还是更胜一筹，而其中个人目前感觉最喜欢的应该是《健听女孩》。
PTA的作品對我一般偏晦澀，此片倒是出乎意料的輕鬆。幾近素人的男女主駕馭得相當不錯，聖費爾南多峽谷70年代的風情畫也是華麗、輕靈，又能有奇妙的代入感。最值得稱道的是内斂著的反文化話題，讓人眼前一亮。
三星半。麻花一贯的架空夸张风格让它以往做故事时很难建立可信情境，三谷幸喜成功的舞台式喜剧对它而言无疑是瞌睡送枕头，可无缝化用。欣喜的是，《杀手》在保留日版的互动模式（跨服聊天、以假乱真）基础上，对人物关系和视点作了集中优化，也另起炉灶提炼出更易共鸣的龙套追梦主题，节奏舒服，笑点密集，没有三俗小笑话，没强煽情也没硬上价值，是春节档看得最舒心的一部。
PTA和他的好莱坞后花园，故事虽怀旧，意欲却是力推新人。与思乡同样重要的，他也扣问好莱坞的未来在哪里。C.霍夫曼外型简直是父亲的翻版，但愿今后的戏路也能一马平川。老汤姆又没走出舒适圈，难怪最佳男配给了库珀。
春节档唯一的喜剧片
以《魔幻时刻》为骨架，内里放置大量《喜剧之王》的肌理，在辅以见缝插针的经典电影段落的移植，共同构建出本片的面貌。从魏翔本身来说，之前作为配角参演的电影中，他可以称得上亮眼夺目，能凭借一句“风雨中抱紧自由”抢戏沈腾，也能凭借“三口一头猪”出圈，自身的喜感其实来自于于平常情境突然转折的反差，再加上惯用的变调扮丑的路数，作为配角是异常亮眼的存在，但当作为主角之后，这一反差就消失殆尽了，因戏份的增加，反差被时长无线的延长，以往的惊喜出现，现在就变成了平常的戏份延展，而且在单一路数的情况下，不断令人凝视，是会提起疑虑的，正是在这种情况下，魏翔那份基于本身经历而写的“喜剧之王”脉络，就变成当下最无俗套的喜剧式煽情，而过往的表演也从一个表情带来的人物喜感变为看似凸显演技的眉眼细节，实则挤眉弄眼的烦人演法。
看PTA拍这片有种看张艺谋拍出《三枪拍案惊奇》的感觉……
PTA的《好莱坞往事》和《美国风情画》，故事上没有《私恋失调》那么紧凑，但是那些丝滑的长镜头依旧让人着迷，和许多类似题材不同的是，安德森想要呈现的是一种“长不大”的可能性，既然大人的世界只有幻灭，那为什么不在那之前逗留久一点呢？
开心麻花几乎所有的电影都可以说是升级版的舞台剧 连拍摄手法都是 大概因为类似春晚的晚会上连小品都很难过审 所以都搬到大银幕了
原来以为是男主成长日记、没发现是女主成长日记，很喜欢小钢炮似的到处发火的女主。开倒车之后坐在马路边那段好心酸，仿佛看到了小组作业队友怎么都带不动的我
略失望，高开低走，终于还是顾左右而言他，像极了你说的，爱情的模样。怼脸近景和室内收光还是优秀，第一次约会的一系列正反打精彩。安排Sean Penn, Cooper, Safdie都有一点大师那个意思了(好的方面也是不好的方面
虽然不是最好的PTA，但也是很打动人的电影，可以看做是血色将至的爱情版，只不过两个人之间的博弈不是为了利益，而是出于感性（傲娇）。
pta再拍人情片会被我狠狠创思，男主让我想吐，，，，，，，😇
丑男丑女也就算了，年龄差距也不是啥新鲜事儿，这种故事有什么可以拿出来演绎的，都是各种无聊的破事儿，所谓的创业就像儿戏。比《吸大麻的孩子》差出十条街。也就61岁的西恩·潘那场戏值得一看，库珀出来几分钟演了个啥。奥斯卡越来越三流。4
另外说本片政治不正确的可以去死了，借用其他网友评论，“对放大真实的70mm，还原LA的荒唐叙事不满的，就是会在莎翁剧作里加黑人主角的”
我怎么那么喜欢呢！人只有不完美 值得歌颂
靠近的膝盖，"床戏"中未曾触碰的手，政客和情人的争吵,镜头中只有愤怒失意的情人和信息量爆炸一脸懵逼的女主。
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